Enter the following search terms into google.com, bing.com, yahoo.com, and google.cn (google's Chinese website). In your blog, comment on any differences in search results you see. I don't expect you to be able to read Chinese, but the actual URLs will be in english and sometimes will have english summaries.
1. uss yorktown nt
2. google china censorship
3. Tiananmen Square
4. Taiwan independence
Google Results
1. uss yorktown nt - Wikipedia article followed by article called Sunk by Windows NT
2. google china censorship - BBC News article followed by Wikipedia article on Google China
3. Tiananmen Square - Wikipedia article on the protests of 1989, THEN the actual Tiananmen Square Wiki, followed by a travel guide and Google Pictures image results
4. Taiwan independence - Wikipedia article on Taiwan independence, followed by the article for the independence party of Taiwan. Then a 'Foreign Policy in Focus' blog and a recent news article posted six hours ago as of this writing.
Yahoo Results
1. uss yorktown nt - Wikipedia article, different article on same software issues
2. google china censorship - Censorship by Google Wikipedia article, China and Google 'Google-watch.org', Offical Google Blog: Google in China
3. Tiananmen Square - Same first two as Google, but this instead of a travel site
4. Taiwan independence - Wikipedia on Taiwan independence, followed by this from answers.com, and the same fpif.org article
Bing Results
1. uss yorktown nt - Wikipedia article, another article on their software issues leaving them 'dead in the water', and the same "Sunk by Windows NT" article from Google.
2. google china censorship - Wikipedia Censorship by Google, Google and China again, and Wikipedia on Google China
3. Tiananmen Square - image results for Tiananmen Square, Wikipedia for the protests of 1989, Wikipedia for Tiananmen Square
4. Taiwan independence - The Offical Government Site in English, Wikipedia, True History of Taiwan
Google China
1. uss yorktown nt - Sunk by Windows NT, Wikipedia, 'Dead in the water'
2. google china censorship - Google.cn, Google China Wikipedia, BBC News - Google Censors itself for China
3. Tiananmen Square - No Wikipedia or news articles. All blogs and one top post about the pronuncation of Tiananmen Square
4. Taiwan independence - Wikipedia article, but again, no news articles, just blogs.
So initially the main differences were simply where things were placed on the page and how relavant the site seemed to make Wikipedia over news articles and vica-versa. Even the first two in google.cn seems to have the same pattern. It's not until it gets down to things that are actual issues for China (Tiananmen Square and Taiwan's independence) that news articles suddenly become non existant.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Assignment 10: digg
Honestly, I don't like Digg. It's always seemed kind of pointless to me. There are news sites all over that allow you to state your opinion already on valid news articles. Digg just seems to want to toss the mundane and uninteresting as well as pointless in with the things that really need to be discussed. And people are usually favoriting the things that really shouldn't have such a huge spotlight.
I don't know, perhaps I'm just jaded after all this time. I've said it before, I started up on Livejournal. I never saw the point to needing these hundreds and hundreds of networking sites before. But I was also in that generation in between where the dot-com was ending and the social networking was beginning.
Anyway...
I suppose this article about uTorrent 2.0...
I'm a torrenter, and a long time user of 2.0. But to me this is something that should be left on geek blogs and tech news sites. The majority of computer users out there aren't going to know or care what uTorrent is. Feels like a waste of space to me. 501 Diggs when stories about illnesses over seas are getting less than 200. That's a shame, really.
I don't know, perhaps I'm just jaded after all this time. I've said it before, I started up on Livejournal. I never saw the point to needing these hundreds and hundreds of networking sites before. But I was also in that generation in between where the dot-com was ending and the social networking was beginning.
Anyway...
I suppose this article about uTorrent 2.0...
I'm a torrenter, and a long time user of 2.0. But to me this is something that should be left on geek blogs and tech news sites. The majority of computer users out there aren't going to know or care what uTorrent is. Feels like a waste of space to me. 501 Diggs when stories about illnesses over seas are getting less than 200. That's a shame, really.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
DDoS Attack of Massive Proportions
So, I wasn't sure if anyone from class was aware of it, but aprox. two days ago, major networking sites as well as Google and internet users in Chicago as a whole were affected and disconnected when a DDoS attack occurred, shutting down Twitter, Facebook, as well as Livejournal and nearly making Google crash as well. While Google was able to head off the attack, Twitter and Facebook experienced lengthy downtime, and Livejournal is still recovering from the attack, unable to get out comment notifications as well as unable to allow certain IP addresses to connect due to issues with the programs that help block unwanted attacks. It is uncertain at this time how long LJ will remain with issues, but according to them thousands of bots are still attacking many of these sites.
And the reason for all this nonsense.
One man.
That's right. One person, a single blogger, who was speaking out against the issues of the conflict between Russia and Georgia. They attempted to silence him and him alone by taking out damn near half the internet. The outcry from it has been resounding dissapointement, anger and irritation, and while for Twitter and Facebook users it has dispateda some, Livejournal users continue to echo the plantive cry.
And as an avid user of LJ myself? Well, the problem on my end was mostly fixed by mid-afternoon, but I'm left listening to friends of mine who still can't access, or only can through a proxy server.
If ever there was a need to prove once and for all without any reasonable doubt that the internet brings out the worst in people, this was certainly a step in the right direction.
And the reason for all this nonsense.
One man.
That's right. One person, a single blogger, who was speaking out against the issues of the conflict between Russia and Georgia. They attempted to silence him and him alone by taking out damn near half the internet. The outcry from it has been resounding dissapointement, anger and irritation, and while for Twitter and Facebook users it has dispateda some, Livejournal users continue to echo the plantive cry.
And as an avid user of LJ myself? Well, the problem on my end was mostly fixed by mid-afternoon, but I'm left listening to friends of mine who still can't access, or only can through a proxy server.
If ever there was a need to prove once and for all without any reasonable doubt that the internet brings out the worst in people, this was certainly a step in the right direction.
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